Good thing I don't partake in CPU racing then.

For today programs and most games it's perfectly fine. War Thunder, Arma 3 and many other AAA runs max quality without issue; recently COD Warzone required to cut back clutter a little and that was it.

Synthetic benchmarks are almost irrelevant, we've been in good enough territory for a decade now.

I call bullshit on that one, there's no way you are running a CPU expensive game like ARMA on a q6600 at any usable FPS much less max settings, maybe at < 720p with tiny render distance. That game struggled on modern PCs when it came out in 2013, you are claiming an ancient CPU that's 6 years older. Yeah no way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ACAxlY98gI tests are readily available